Little Beeps

Many years ago, I realized that I loved to see electronic, high-tech
gizmos and that I would be personally involved in creating these devices
when I grew up. Well, I grew up and I am still fascinated by the same type
of stuff. Now I have computers and software at my disposal, which I didn't
have as a kid... read more

Autocad VBA and VB.NET

I have been using Autocad, oh, since release 2.2, around 1984 I think.
It has come a long way since that time, but for the type of electronic
circuitry that I make in my hobby lab, it could still be 1984.
However, I use Autocad 2010 at work and there are many changes and
add-ons to the one that I started with. The use of VBA for the
macros and most recently in 2010, the introduction of Objectarx for
VB.NET and/or C#. See my
blog, here for more
info.

Electronic Calculations

I am trying something new here. I have written a web application that will allow you
to calculate some common electronic calculations, using my form. Just enter the required
data and the calculate button will do the rest. Let me know what you think. Click on the
Contact link above to send me an email...read more

My New Web Pages

I finally took some time and modernized my old pages with some new
HTML pages that, hopefully have a better appeal and will allow me to do
maintenance much easier so that I can update my articles in a more
timely manner. Let me know if you like them. Send me an
email. I hope
that now I will be able to post more often.

From My Blog - Cloning A Form

Many beginner coders and experienced coders alike are
interested in easy ways to duplicate, or cloning code so that it
doesn't have to be written over and over again in the project.
The code below can be used just for that.

Add this to the general declarations area above all of your
procedures. This is the simple declaration for the form
variable.

Private frmObj As Form

Add this to a button on your original form, or to the double
click method or just be inventive. Make sure you substitute
your original form name for the Form1 reference.